In Memory of Igor Klatzo, 1916–2007

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Igor Klatzo, retired Chief of the Laboratory of Neuropathology and Neuroanatomical Sciences at the National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Stroke (NINDS) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, Maryland, passed away on the 5th of May 2007 in Montgomery Village, Maryland. This remarkable and colorful man was born on October 9th, 1916 in St. Petersburg, Russia. He grew up and was educated in Vilnius, Poland (now Lithuania). Igor Klatzo was a notable scientist and a gregarious individual whose life reflected his background. He studied medicine at the King Stefan Batory University in Vilnius from 1934 to 1939. As a medical student, he was inspired by Prof. Maximilian Rose, a prominent psychiatrist and neurologist, and developed an interest in brain function. World War II interrupted his medical education, but he served as a physician at the Psychiatric Hospital in Vilnius and in the Polish Underground Army or Armia Krajowa ("Home Army") under the direct leadership of the Polish Government in-exile in London. After the war, Igor was appointed as a medical doctor in the Polish Red Cross mission in Germany. He was responsible for assessing the health condition of Polish citizens who were former German forced laborers, prior to their repatriation. In 1945, he visited his friend Jerzy Olszewski, who worked with Prof. Oskar Vogt (at the Brain Research Institute in Neustadt/Black Forest, Germany) and accepted a research associate position there, where he studied neuropathology under the tutelage of Profs. Oskar and Cecile Vogt. Oskar Vogt was the founder of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Brain Research in Berlin-Buch, and Doctor Honoris Causa of the Stefan Batory University in Vilnius, the alma mater of both Olszewski and Klatzo. He helped Igor to obtain his MD degree from the Albert-Ludwig University of Freiburg in 1947. Subsequently, recommendation from Prof. O. Vogt to Prof. Wilder G. Penfield, Director of the Montreal Neurological Institute permitted both Klatzo and Olszewski to move to Canada in the spring of 1948. Igor worked there with Prof. Penfield until 1952 and subsequently with Prof. G. Lyman Duff at the Pathological Institute of McGill University until 1954. In 1952, he obtained an MSc degree from McGill and also received an Allan Blair Memorial Fellowship from the Canadian Cancer Society. In 1956, he was appointed as Head of the Neuropathology Section, Branch of Neurosurgery, National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Blindness (later named the National Institutes of Neurological Disorders and Stroke [NINDS]). Ten years later, he was named Chief of the Laboratory of Neuropathology and Neuroanatomical Sciences, NINDS, NIH, where he remained until his retirement in 1994.

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